Derwent Brass Works
Derwent Brass Works
HER Number
1633
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Derwent Brass Works
Place
Swalwell
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Industrial
Site Type: Broad
Metal Industry Site
Site Type: Specific
Brass Works
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
There have been buildings on this site since at least Ordnance Survey first edition.By the third edition a large building on the site is named as Derwent Brass Works and this survives today [2006]. The existing building is built of yellow brick, but incorporates a west elevation of roughly hewn and roughly coursed stone, supported by yellow brick buttresses. First floor windows have a brick arch above and bricks laid on face below. The southern elevation is of modern red brick.
Easting
420190
Northing
562000
Grid Reference
NZ420190562000
Sources
<< HER 1633 >> Tyne and Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, 1978, Dunston and Swalwell Plan Area; Tyne and Wear Museums, 2005, Collingwood Buildings, Quality Row, Swalwell, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment and Photographic Recording